# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百三十七条 (Article 137) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-137. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 刑事訴訟法 (Code of Criminal Procedure), 昭和二十三年法律第百三十一号 - English title "Code of Criminal Procedure": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百三十七条 (Article 137) — address `art-137` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-137 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百三十七条 art-137 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-137 **第一項** 被告人又は被告人以外の者が正当な理由がなく身体の検査を拒んだときは、決定で、十万円以下の過料に処し、かつ、その拒絶により生じた費用の賠償を命ずることができる。 art-137/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-137/par-1 When the defendant or a person other than the defendant refuses an inspection and examination of the person without a justifiable reason, the court may punish said person by making a ruling for a non-criminal fine of not more than 100,000 yen and order said person to compensate for the expenses incurred due to said refusal. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the accused or a person other than the accused refuses an inspection and examination of the person without a justifiable reason, the court may punish said person by making a ruling for a non-criminal fine of not more than 100,000 yen and order said person to compensate for the expenses incurred due to said refusal." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 前項の決定に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-137/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-137/par-2 An immediate appeal against the ruling prescribed in the preceding paragraph may be filed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-137/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百三十七条第一項 (Article 137, paragraph (1)), art-137/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-137/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百三十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-137/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第百四十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-140/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第百六十八条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-168/par-6 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-222/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第七項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-7 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十五条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-515/par-4 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Code of Criminal Procedure, written 2026-11-06 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 刑事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-10-20 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000131/20261020_508AC0000000067), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure (刑事訴訟法), Article 137, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06